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the op says he has access to 20 to 30 inch pine and ash, surely it's best to have more than 50cc for ringing up those stems?

crikey - enough horsepower there to cut down a whole rainforest

I thought Stere also made a sensible suggestion (below). Putting the Husky 365 and Makita EA7900P45E side by side (the specs are similar, the Makita is 200g heavier, 8cc more displacement and slightly (0.9kW) more powerful). I would prefer the Husky as spares would be easier . The best google prices for both are £550 on 18 inch, some of these internet stores though I would be wary of. Radmore, FRJ etc established forestry suppliers won't be a problem Personally would use my 441 for ringing up 20 to 30 inch dia as op states. I don't use Aspen, just start, open tank, tip out and rev till it stops to store. Been doing that with it since 2011, never had to put a carb kit in it.

Ok you dont like my mutilation pruning spec, but your 10 year fell - are you saying dont worry re his wife's safety concerns, or do you think there is reason now to justify the expense of an arboricultural report addressing the likelihood of damage to people or property within the next decade while the replacements are growing?

I know I'll never make a proper arborist, but at least the less knowledgeable home owners will hire a cowboy gardener like me

definitely good advice, in the autumn if either of them grow fungal brackets they are firewood looks like you've got space to plant some other bits and bobs, start growing replacements a bit further out perhaps

Down south - so unfortunately it won't be me up there! Later on this evening I'm sure anyone nearby with a rope and harness will be on here after your readies

I would love to spend a day in such a beautiful spot, if anyone gets to take a saw to them, it will be a nice job to go to hackers for hire

what happens with insurance if they end up damaging the house?

had a few days of high winds in the south, anyway was just asked about saving a conifer - its maybe 14ft high cypress type thing, blown about 20deg off vertical on Sunday, no rootplate up. I tied it using customers rope to a nearby arbor at the concrete base. There is a breezeblock wall about 3ft behind the tree and I said to customer on a nicer day it could be tied back with eyebolts. I now think this was silly as eyebolts likely to come out. The wall could be drilled through and I could weld up some bar with an eye on, but in a gale would the tree pull the wall down? Can tirfor and ground anchor to upright the tree before attempting to guy it somehow, but is it use the wall or try something else in the ground?

yeah right

I didn't think she was any good as I'm in favour of at least some nationalisation of heavy industry. Taxpayer owned factories and shipyards to equip the armed forces for a start. Also not sure the selling off council houses thing was a clever move - lending them a deposit to mortagage a house on the open market would have been better imo. The heavy discounting of the purchase price based on number of years rent paid seemed to me an encouragement to people not to bother trying to work harder to get themselves a place

Phobic facts of the day - immigration has caused the rise in knife crime. And made houses less affordable. More mosques than chuches, he doesnt mind its all love

talking about climate change with a customer of mine - she says her son went to see a glacier and some years later her daughter went to the same place, but it had retreated (this she attributed to global warming) and the daughter couldn't walk to the glacier like her son had done at the same spot some years before, instead they had to take a helicopter ride to see it. It occurred to me after hearing this story that the helicopter ride to see the retreating glacier wasn't exactly helping the problem...

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Yes - almost making it acceptable to keep polluting, not addressing the root causes Another option on the table at the UN must be to successfully invade another planet similar to Earth and claim it for ourselves

It's funny that it's the scientists that are to blame for this mess in the first place - if medical science hadn't increased longevity the effects of the consumer would be so much less The United Nations are tapping all the TEFAL heads to help solve this one - 'A proposal backed by Switzerland and ten other countries would require the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to prepare a comprehensive assessment of geoengineering, including methods to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere or inject aerosols into the stratosphere to block sunlight. Due by August 2020, the report would examine the underlying science and technology, and how to govern research and wide-scale use.' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00717-6

So youve been trucking 15 years own your own rig and can only pay yourself 250 a week? With a family too - you must be kept from starvation by tax credits. Anyone can cut lawns, almost anyone can cut most hedges. If youre in all the local papers and magazines and cant make more than 250 on grounds maintenance you need a PAYE job working for someone else. Hedges arent as seasonal as mowing. With trees unless its ground felling or small bits off a ladder, it will be a long road. But tree climbing is the most excitement Ive had working in gardens. Its not just buying vehicles, machinery and doing courses, the best workers have bothered to read a bit about trees and plants in general. If you only want to be a climbing chainsaw operative then dont bother to learn about trees, just learn how to safely get rid of them.

my local council have a plan for 10,000 new homes over the next 15 years - I wrote to them asking if they had seen Constable's painting The Haywain. What we are doing to the environment now is just covering it with a concrete cancer. Politicians always put economic growth before environmental sustainability. It wouldn't matter if the government made it compulsory for every 17 year old to drive a government issued supercharged V8 if there were half the number of people. It's only going to get worse. We are so lucky to be alive now, another 300 years time the countryside will be photos in some history book. So now China is scrapping its family planning laws so enough new worker units are produced to pay income tax for the current billion odd to live off when they retire.. There are no answers that don't involve castration and walking to the supermarket scum is too nice a word for the politicians that think the answer is more houses, not less people

when the same (or similar) bug/fungi complex took out some English oaks a few years ago in California, looks like DEFRA were concerned enough to go into it in some detail establishing known host plants and possible methods of entry into UK- although our climate is vastly different, they seemed to think there was some risk from imported planting material The table of confirmed reproductive hosts in the document below is huge - so how this relates to the pattern in the Johannesburg photo I won't make any more silly guesses https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/phiw/riskRegister/downloadExternalPra.cfm?id=4055

Carefully scaling from the photos using the most advanced CAD mathematics that tree is between 130ft and 130ft 2 inches

argument against single species avenues: 'An invasive beetle from Asia that has infested trees lining the streets of Johannesburg’s most exclusive suburbs is sweeping across South Africa, and scientists are powerless to stop it. The only defence is to cut down and burn infected trees in the city, one of the largest urban forests in the world. It is estimated that half a million of Johannesburg’s ten million trees will be invaded by the polyphagous shot hole borer, which is also wreaking havoc in eight of the country’s nine provinces. It could soon cross borders to blight forests elsewhere in Africa.' Times Uk

right that's it Haynes manual will be dusted off and my transit diff is getting an oil change, never even checked the level in 70,000 miles of ownership, total covered 145k. Its done well really. Edit - a bit of poking around on the transit forum re diff (Mk 6) 'Transit rear axles were designed as filled for life. ' Also says in the Haynes manual that checking diff oil not a Ford service requirement. No drain plug - will check the level anyway and just squirt some in if needs be. Maybe go fishing for swarf with a magnet

'yes we do and we're making a killing just marking it up??' all kinds of contraptions on alibaba